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       <h2 style="margin-right: 1.5em;">Description of MS Y: 
         <span style="font-style: italic;">Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud Misc. 482</span>
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         <h3 style="font-size: 20pt; color: #626C9B; font-weight: bold; position: relative; top: -1em; letter-spacing: .10em; width: 100%; border-bottom: double 3px #626C9B; ">General description</h3>
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	   Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud Msic. 482, is "a narrow thin book containing
	   penitential and confessional collections, and offices for the sick and dying" (Ker, p. 419).  It is a
	   striking manuscript, small--virtually hand-sized--and the only codex containing Anglo-Saxon penitentials
	   that might be described as a "handbook for the priest"; it is one of few such handbook-sized
	   manuscripts of the early medieval penitentials surviving in Latin or the vernacular.  The manuscript was written in the main by one scribe and is a collection of unusual compactness
	   and purposefulness.  It has neither a list of capitula nor enumerated chapters and thus contains
	   the least referential apparatus of the manuscripts of the penitentials. This suggests that it 
	   was a practical volume rather than a source from which other copies would be made, a view reinforced by the
	   inclusion of contemporary offices for the sick and the dying (ff. 47 following). Prayers added a century or two later (f. 44) suggest private ownership.
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	   The manuscript is dated s. xi<sup>med</sup> (Ker, p. 419) and is from Worcester. Catalogue numbers: Ker #34, Gneuss #656. 
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	   <a href="msch482.html">Table 1</a> lists the content of the manuscript by folio.
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	   <span style="font-weight: bold;">Dimensions</span>: 202 x 91 mm, written space 178 x 65 mm; average number of  lines per page:  24 long lines (Ker, p. 421).
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	   <span style="font-weight: bold;">Collation</span>: Ff. ii + 68 + ii, foliated (i, ii), 1-68, (69, 70).  Ff. (i, ii, 69, 70) are paper leaves of the date of
	   binding (s. xvii). (Ker, p. 421). A leaf is missing after fol. 23; leaves missing at end. Color: Capital letters and the sign 7 are filled or outlined with red.
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	 <h3 style="font-size: 20pt; color: #626C9B; font-weight: bold; position: relative; top: -1em; letter-spacing: .10em; width: 100%; border-bottom: double 3px #626C9B; ">Hands</h3>
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	   "A small, laterally compressed hand, becoming larger and rounder towards the end" (Ker, p. 421).
	   Written in one hand, except for a second, similar hand on ff. 7, 8 2-8, 8v 8-24 (Ker, p. 421).
	   Corrections and Anglo-Saxon glosses seemingly contemporary with the main hand are marked as
	   Hand 2. Notes and glosses by the Tremulous Hand are marked as Hand 3; notes by Joscelyn are
	   identified as Hand 4. Before Joscelyn consulted the manscript, a slightly earlier hand (Hand 5)
	   foliated it. An unidentified modern hand is marked Hand 6.
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	 <h3 style="font-size: 20pt; color: #626C9B; font-weight: bold; position: relative; top: -1em; letter-spacing: .10em; width: 100%; border-bottom: double 3px #626C9B; ">Vernacular penitential content</h3>
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	   <span style="font-weight: bold;">OE Introduction</span><br/>
	   On halgum gewritum: 19a-20a   
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	   Theodorus se halga &amp; goda bisceop: 28b-30-a   
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	   Se &aelig;reste forl&aelig;tnes: 30b
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	   <span style="font-weight: bold;">Scriftboc </span>: 30b-40a 
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	   <span style="font-weight: bold;">OE Penitential</span>: 1a-19a 
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	   Book I: 1a    
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	   Book II: 5b   
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	   Book III: 10b  
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	   Book IV: 14a 
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	   <span style="font-weight: bold;">OE Handbook</span>:<br/>
	   Handbook 5: 28b           
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	   Handbook 5.3-7: 40a-42b  
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	   Handbook 6: 42b-43b 
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	   Handbook 3: 45a-45b 
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	   Handbook 5:  45b-46a     
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	   <span style="font-weight: bold;">Canons of Theodore</span>:
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	   Sanctus Gregorius se halga papa: 20a-21a     
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	   Canons of Theodore: 21a-28b   
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	   Offices for the sick and the dying: 47-68v, edited by Fehr (1921).
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	   There are Latin prayers to the Virgin and St. John on f. 44 from s. xii/xiii (Ker, p. 421).
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	   This <a href="msch482.html">table</a> contains a list of chapters by folio.
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